California’s Strict New Booster Seat Law Offers Scant Evidence It Improves Child Rider Safety
A risk analyst tells the Sun that provisions of a new law enacting a five-step seatbelt fit test, “while well-meaning, are legislating requirements based on anecdotal notions rather than scientific analytics.’
A California bill mandating booster seats is quickly veering into what critics call legislative overreach, with early drafts suggesting that eighth graders could be forced to use them. Bruno Vincent/Getty Images
